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BOYKOFF, Jules. Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge. Washington: Edge Books, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Perfect bound into Wrappers. New. 93pp. "This collection makes the lyric and socialist realist documentary look helpless in the face of neoliberalism. If there is, as many want to argue now, a poetry of globalization, Jules Boykoff is writing it and those looking for what poetry might look like post-Seattle will find this necessary reading" -Juliana Spahr.

BOZEK, Jessica; JOOSTEN, Julie. HIJ Five. Toronto: BookThug, 2014. Limited Edition. 163x120mm. Stapled Wrappers. Fine. np. Two stapled chapbooks, each with HIJ handstamped to the front cover above the author's name and the date 25/05/2014; 20 pages (Bozek) and 20 pages (Joosten) respectfully; both housed in a plain white envelope with HIJ / FIVE hand stamped to the front. Produced for the fifth installment of a reading series called HIJ, loosely based on a journal run by the hosts Jay & Hazel Millar in the early 1990s.

[Ottawa]: Curvd H&Z [457], 2006. Limited Edition. 12mo. np [8 pages]. One of 150 [of 170] copies printed mimeo and rubberstamp and bound into mimeo printed wrappers. New. This text was originally written in 1989 as a critical response to David UU's book Before the Golden Dawn, originally published by Weed/Flower Press in 1971.

Toronto: Pangen Subway Ritual, no date. First Edition. 4to. np [10 pages]. 5 sheets, printed recto only, stapled along the spine. The Metal farm features one poet per issue and the poems are of a visual nature. Almost Fine.

Toronto: Pangen Subway Ritual, 1996. Limited Edition. 4to. np. A collection of nine separate individual hand bound publications by John Barlow, Mark Connery, David UU, Errol Miller, Nelson Ball, damian lopes, Simon Tyler, M. Kettner, Sheila E. Murphy, tipped into a custom folder produced from salvaged coach house paper with work by Barbara Astman on it (Bradley credits her work on the contents sheet, though I doubt she knows her work has been displayed thusly). Complete. An excessive example of small press tinkering in the guise of a periodical. Fine.

88pp. 8vo. Perfectbound into wrappers, with printed title plate to the front cover.Daniel f. Bradley has been developing his craft in Toronto for the last 20 years with little to no recognition from literary critics. In fact, despite the vast body of work that has appeared, Daniel has never sought a public larger than what he can touch with his own senses. In a similar fashion, Daniel's poetry is immediate and intimate - a poetry that cleans language to a point millimeters before abstraction can occur. With an uncanny and fetishistic urban lyricism that has quietly claimed its own linguistic territory in the heart of Toronto, the poetry of Daniel f. Bradley attempts to be nothing more than language pure and simple. BookThug is proud to present this first full-length trade edition by the poet who wrote the poem from which BookThug takes its name.

North Vancouver: Silver Birch Press, 1992. 32mo. np [16 pages]. Limited Edition. 24mo. np [16 pages] One of 100 copies. The Berkeley Horse 41. A poem that later appeared in a slightly different form in Books of Blue Frit (outlands, 1998). Fine.

Toronto: self-published by the author, 1996. Limited Edition 4to. np [28 pages]. One of 26 numbered copies [of which this is #22] printed on salvaged paperstock Ã«from the psr, tbr, fdi, eor, and other blue boxesÃ­ (from the colophon). 14 letter-sized sheets printed both sides (although presumably only one side was printed specifically for this publication) hand sewn in the Japanese style along the spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white; one hand-tipped colour plate. Work that was later gathered into Books of Blue Frit, published by outlands in 1998. To my mind an important collection, for one can see the breakthrough of BradleyÃ­s mature voice, which he has continued to develop and refine since the mind 90s: a poetics of minimalist fetishistic lyricism. Important to this publication is the inclusion of a variety of visual work, which Bradley seems to have more or less abandoned in recent years. Also important to this copy (I am uncertain if it is the case in all copies) is that two of the sheets were printed on the backs of Ã«Selected Bibliography of Daniel f. Bradley (April 1996)Ã­, which lists smallpress publications by Bradley from 1986 to 1996. This includes a list of Ã«other book contributionsÃ­ on the following page. Fine.

Toronto: Pangen Subway Ritual, 1993. Limited Edition. 4to. np. One of 25 numbered and initialed copies, of which this is number 22. Three sheets printed recto only, numbered and initialed on the verso, laid into folded printed tabloid sheet that reproduces the front of a Canada Exercise Book / Cahier DÃ­Exercices on the cover, on which the author/publisher has filled out his name, address and Ã«schoolÃ­ in three different colours of pencil crayon. Three prose pieces. Fine.

Toronto: Eternally Spinning Editions, 2001. First Edition? 8vo. np [24 pages]. Stapled into self-wrappers. One of an indeterminate number of copies, this state in tan cover. Fine. A collection of poems and visuals.